policy Archive

  • Closing workshop poster: sustainability of project outputs

    Closing workshop poster: sustainability of project outputs

    Posted on 17 July 2013 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    Our poster, “Research360: Sustainability of Project Outputs“, is now available to download from the University of Bath publication repository. This poster was presented at the JISCMRD programme’s final workshop in Birmingham on 25–26 March 2013. The poster gives an overview of the major strands of work in the Research360 project (Roadmap & Business Case, RDM Policy [...]

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  • 8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013

    8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013

    Posted on 22 January 2013 by Jez Cope | From Research360
    From Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 January 2013, Cathy and I attended the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC13) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. On Monday morning, we ran a workshop, jointly with Hannah Lloyd-Jones from Open Exeter, entitled “Designing Data Management Training Resources: Tools for the provision of interactive research data management workshops“. This offered participants the [...]

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  • A Wellcome development?

    A Wellcome development?

    Posted on 29 June 2012 by graham.pryor | From DCC
    The Wellcome Trust has announced that it will be strengthening the manner in which it enforces its open access policy. With immediate effect, failure to comply with the policy, which since 2006 has required that all research papers funded by the Trust ...

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  • ANDS & the DCC

    ANDS & the DCC

    Posted on 16 April 2012 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    After giving a presentation on DMP Online at the Future Perfect conference, Martin and I visited ANDS staff in the Canberra and Mebourne offices.  We had some great discussions, sharing common ground and learning from each other's lessons. Rea...

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  • Gaps in Guidelines

    Gaps in Guidelines

    Posted on 16 March 2012 by Catherine Pink | From Research360
    Gap analyses often take the form of a formal survey such as the Data Asset Framework or CARDIO. However, there are more informal ways of identifying gaps in an institution’s readiness for managing its research data. As we have been working on our new RDM policy, we have referred to a number of related policies, [...]

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  • Benefiting from Research360: Who, when and how?

    Benefiting from Research360: Who, when and how?

    Posted on 8 March 2012 by Catherine Pink | From Research360
    Thinking about this blog post has provided a welcome opportunity to reflect on what we’re hoping to achieve during the Research360 project. It’s a broad project covering many aspects of research data management (RDM) and generating numerous specific outputs that, one would hope, will all benefit researchers, their collaborators, the institution and the wider RDM [...]

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  • Developing a roadmap for RDM

    Developing a roadmap for RDM

    Posted on 16 February 2012 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    We trialled a new session at the Loughborough roadshow on developing data policy and services. This ended with an excerise on producing an RDM roadmap, as the EPSRC requirement to do this by May 2012 is uppermost on many people's minds. Read more

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  • Developing institutional data policies: trend for 2012

    Developing institutional data policies: trend for 2012

    Posted on 22 December 2011 by sarah.jones | From DCC
    The DCC is supporting a number of UK universities with research data management and top of the wishlist for most is a data policy. The EPSRC policy framework is often cited a key driver. We’re also seeing lots of policy development courtesy of th...

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